A day after detaining them from Bhopal, the Rajasthan police on Saturday released two Madhya Pradesh journalists , after the two claimed that an alleged extortion video of them demanding money to take down stories against Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari was AI-generated.

Anand Pandey, editor-in-chief of a news portal called The Sootr, and Harish Divekar, its managing editor, were detained on Friday and taken to Jaipur. The news portal is headquartered in Bhopal .

The FIR against them had alleged that they had carried false and defamatory stories against Kumari and demanded Rs 5 crore to take them down.

Jaipur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph told The Indian Express that the two have been released after questioning. “The video on the basis of which we brought th

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